1 The resemblance between her and her mother was strikingly great.
2 Their taste was strikingly alike.
3 This peculiarity is strikingly evinced in the head, as in some part of this book will be incidentally shown.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales. 4 She seemed strikingly homely, standing there in the afternoon light.
5 The difference between his present air and what it had been in the Octagon Room was strikingly great.
6 There was a portrait within of a man strikingly handsome and intelligent-looking, but bearing unmistakable signs upon his features of his African descent.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face 7 In fact, I would even have put up with looking base if, at the same time, my face could have been thought strikingly intelligent.
8 The length of her body was strikingly out of proportion to her short legs.
9 In this case, however, although the occasion of the entertainment was similar, the company was strikingly dissimilar.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 6. The Deputy Procureur du Roi. 10 Zeena took the view that Mattie was bound to make the best of Starkfield since she hadn't any other place to go to; but this did not strike Ethan as conclusive.
11 Let the English mill workers starve because they can't get our cotton but never, never strike a blow for slavery.
12 His was such an easy, graceful strength, lazy as a panther stretching in the sun, alert as a panther to spring and strike.
13 Scarlett rose from his shoulder, furious as a rattler ready to strike.
14 She heard him fumble in the dark, strike a match and the room sprang into light.
15 Lily smiled also: his words were too acute not to strike her sense of humour.